Posted on 09/17/2024 9:05:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In military matters, some tactics have effects far, far beyond the initial impact. The recent, sudden explosions of Hezbollah pagers is one such; no Hezbollah nutcase will ever again look at his pager or cellular phone again without seeing a grenade.
It gets better. Now, a report published in the New York Post reveals that the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, purportedly intercepted Hezbollah's shipment of pagers and loaded them with PETN, a potent high-explosive.
The Israeli spy agency Mossad allegedly intercepted Hezbollah’s shipment of new pagers months ago and rigged them with high explosives — resulting in the stunning attack on the Lebanese terror group Tuesday, according to a new report.
Mossad agents reportedly placed Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, inside the batteries of the pagers, sources told Sky News Arabia, according to a translation from the Times of Israel.
The devices were then detonated by an external signal that caused the batteries inside to overheat, the sources added.
Now, that's a clever play.
PETN — Pentaerythritol tetranitrate — is structurally similar to nitroglycerine, and like nitroglycerin, it has been around a while, having been created and patented in Germany in 1894, and used in military applications by Germany in World Wars 1 and 2. The use of a German-created high explosive by Mossad to ruin the whole day of a bunch of Hezbollah terrorists, well, if that's not the greatest irony of the year, it will do until a greater example comes along.
Imagine the long-term implications of this. Hezbollah nutcases will never again feel comfortable carrying a pager or cellular phone. At a minimum, the terror group will have to change its buying practices; it appears since Mossad was able to intercept one shipment and load the devices with PETN, they were placing mass orders from a single source. Smart money says that if they keep using pagers, they won't do that anymore.
There's always a way around things like this, but now Israel has Hezbollah reacting to them rather than the other way around, which is never a bad situation to be in.
Previously on RedState: NEW: Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Reportedly Injured by Exploding Pager
Heartwarming Tales of Terrorists Blowing Themselves Up
What's more, reacting is all Hezbollah is doing.
The complex operation resulted in a mass attack against Hezbollah operatives, killing nine people and leaving some 2,800 others injured when the pagers detonated on Tuesday morning across Lebanon and in parts of Syria.
Hezbollah confirmed that many of its fighters and medics were injured by the blasts, with one official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, calling it the “biggest security breach” since the group began its near-daily attacks on Israel on Oct. 8.
So there's the standard, Israel: This is the biggest security breach since October 8th. That sets the bar, and it will be interesting to see if Israel can top that in their next operation. Hezbollah has already ceased the use of cellular phones due to the concern that they may be traced and that their locations could be ascertained; that's accurate enough. But now it's very apparent that pagers aren't the answer. Maybe next, they'll resort to carrier pigeons.
This once again proves the old maxim: There is no problem that cannot be solved with the suitable application of high explosives.
Clinton: I hate when a page blows up on you.
They blowed up real good.
My first thought. Pagers courtesy of the u.n. or some ngo?
The Bidone administration will probably step in and give free none blow up ones. That should assure them the Mooslim vote...
Hello! Achmed, this is your goat screwing brother-in-law. Don’t Answer your pager mine rang and blew my balls off. Hello, Hello, Achmed why is your voice so high? You sound like a little girl. Bwaaahaaaahaaaaaa!
How many democrats did we lose as a result of this op?
I say we buy pagers for the Mad Mullahs of Tehran.
Some pagers did some things…
They’re going to change the name of Hezbollah to Hezballess.
“Gotta get back to you, Abdul. My pager’s blowing up.”
Maybe they were 0bama pagers.
“What is best in life? To smite the Hezbos, to blast off their gherkins, and to hear the lamentations of the mullahs and MSM presstitutes! Allahu Fubar!
“leaving some 2,800 others injured when the pagers detonated on Tuesday morning across Lebanon and in parts of Syria. “
Talk about “a thousand points of light.” 2,800 points of light.
An attempt by terrorists to use PETN on us:
U.S. Feared Parcel Bomb Plot Was Coming; Saw September ‘Dry Run’
ABC News ^ | 11/1/10 | MATTHEW COLE, RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW MOSK and BRIAN ROSS
Posted on 11/1/2010, 8:23:38 PM by tpmintx
US intelligence officials feared that al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen were plotting to attack the United States and actually intercepted what they now believe were “dry run” shipments to Chicago in mid-September, according to several people briefed on the plot and a senior US official.
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The White House said it only learned of the actual air cargo plot late Thursday night when Saudi intelligence provided “a tip” about the bombs being shipped.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com .
U.S. Hunts for More Suspicious Packages (”Sheer luck” PETN bombs didn’t go off)
The New York Times ^ | Friday, October 29, 2010 | Scott Shane
Posted on 10/29/2010, 10:22:13 PM by kristinn
SNIP
Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said Friday that the packages seized in Britain and Dubai contained PETN, the same chemical explosive contained in the bomb sewn into the underwear of the Nigerian man who tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit last Dec. 25. That plot, too, was hatched in Yemen, a country that is regarded as one of the most significant fronts in the battle with extremists.
Ms. Harman, who was briefed by John S. Pistole, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, said that both packages contained computer printer cartridges filled with the explosive, but that one used a cellphone as a detonator and the other had a timer....
Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah pagers, say sources
The plot appears to have been many months in the making, several sources told Reuters.
The senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5,000 beepers from Gold Apollo, which several sources say were brought into the country earlier this year.
Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang said the pagers used in the explosion were made by a company in Europe that had the right to use the firm’s brand, the name of which he could not immediately confirm.
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